Re: [Orgmode] processing pending emails as part of your GTD system

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:

> Pete Phillips (address@hidden) wrote:
> > This post is slighly off-topic, as it is not directly about org-mode.
> >
> > As many of you on the list will know, I'm a big fan of David  
> > Allen's GTD
> > system, and over the years I have tweaked my use of MH and MH-E to  
> > help
> > support this use.
> >
> > One thing I have done is design a method so that I can easily put  
> > emails
> > into a set of 'pending' mail folders, and then get cron to process  
> > these
> > and dump the emails back into my +inbox at appropriate dates.
>
> That's interesting.  I'm also a fan of GTD and therefore also love
> being able to get mail out of the inbox into the archives, so that the
> inbox only contains unprocessed mail.  However, as I mentioned a while
> back on this list, I take a completely different approach to
> implementing the "tickler" mechanism for allowing an archived mail to
> regain visibility on a particular date:
>
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/2513/
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/5595/

Hi Adam,

I remember these very interesting posts, but I don't see the relation to
a tickler file.  How do you get back to a certain email on a specific  
date?
By scheduling a todo containing the link?

- Carsten

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